Example sentences of "but events " in BNC.
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| 1 | But events have conspired to leave McGeechan well short of a full Lions choice . |
| 2 | The Festival continues until November 25 and is based at the Midlands Arts Centre but events take place throughout the city . |
| 3 | Most of the final parts of this story can not be independently verified but events appear to have run as follows . |
| 4 | Evidence at the coroner 's court should have given him little confidence in the outcome , but events took an upward turn when Marion Lindo stepped into the witness box . |
| 5 | The idea was sound , but events of 14 July made it futile , for Bismarck 's telegram had the desired effect . |
| 6 | The political and social infrastructure for the perpetration of overtly racist acts goes back hundreds of years of course ; but events immediately preceding the sixties laid the foundations for those excesses by the way ‘ race ’ became politicised . |
| 7 | We lost 0–2 but events were taking shape which were to bring the young goalkeeper to the fore : Coventry City swooped for Glazier 's signature in mid-October at a record fee for a goalkeeper of £35,000 . |
| 8 | But events need not have turned out like that . |
| 9 | This was the 316th year of the society , but events such as wars with Napoleon , ‘ Kaiser Bill ’ and Hitler have occasionally prevented it from taking place . |
| 10 | He still resented the Green Meadow Farm affair , and always would , but events had now overtaken his desire to see Brown and the FBI team off his patch . |
| 11 | Not only are many consumers injured by corporate crime ; thousands of employees too suffer from ‘ accidents ’ at work ( which are in fact not pure accidents but events which spring directly from the conditions of production and are in that sense avoidable ) or work-induced diseases , such as asbestosis , lung cancer , and mesothelioma . |
| 12 | The book might , in its day , have served as a poetic manifesto for the Movement — a sort of critical defence of the Angry Young Poet — but events were to take another turn , leading him in 1968 to settle in the United States for twenty years ; to produce , on his return , Under Briggflats ( 1989 ) , a critical history of British poetry since 1960 . |
| 13 | But events elsewhere were passing them by , and by 1958 customary caution and reluctance had led the Nordic states to the point where any move would be a reaction to external developments , a point wryly made later by Per Haekkerup , the premier of Denmark : ‘ No stone was left unturned , no question unanswered . |
| 14 | But events in the region had offended the West 's democratic sensibilities and aroused fears of greater Soviet ambitions . |
| 15 | Nu had indicated his intention to retire from office six months after independence , but events made that impossible . |
| 16 | In the 1930s , this Conservative outlook ( rather than philosophy ) did not face any very serious challenge from the Labour Party 's ideas but events did inflict certain serious blows . |
| 17 | References to another visit recur in later letters , but events precluded it . |
| 18 | At Eton he had been known as ‘ Hitler Hurd ’ , but events had mellowed him . |
| 19 | But events in one 's life history could change this . |
| 20 | Questions about the quality and price of commodities would seem to be natural applications for expert determination , but events have not borne out that assumption . |